Hi Victor, actually you only need the CUPS headers, so the dependencies on CUPS are really not a big problem, even on exotic platforms. Just download and unpack cups (e.g. http://www.cups.org/software.php?VERSION=1.6.2&FILE=1.6.1/cups-1.6.1-source.tar.gz) unpack it, create a symlink in the created directory (i.e. cd cups-1.6.1 && ln -s . include) and point configure to it (i.e. --with-cups=cups-1-6-1). That's it. You can use the same include files for different platform builds if you copy them to a network share.
Regards, Volker On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Victor Lavaud <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello, > I find it intriguing that ./configure fails when it cannot find CUPS, > and I wonder if this is because I did something wrong, or the configure > script is not flexible enough, or the underlying source code cannot work > without cups. > I believe there is a number of cases where CUPS has no reason to be > present: servers, printerless computers. > Other Java implementations don’t require it either. > > Cheers, > Victor >
